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CUTTER AND REAMER. No. 308,842, Patented Dec. 2, 1884;

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%TORNEYS WITNESSES I nnnon BROWN HUNT,

OF DELAWARE, OHIO.

CUTTE R AND REAM ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,842, dated December 2, 1884. I

Application filed April 19, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELDON B. HUNT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Delaware, in the county of Delaware and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flue-Sheet Cutters and Reamers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a perspective View of my improved cutter and rcamer for cuttingholes in flue-sheets of boilers. Fig. 2is a similar view of the stock and the cutter and reamer separated, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to cutters and reamers for cutting holes in the fine-sheets of a boiler; audit consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a tool, which will out the hole and realnits edges at the same time, and provided with a yielding center-pin or spindle which will guide the cutter without the necessity of drilling a hole in the sheet for the pin guiding the cutter, as is necessary in cutters as they are generally constructed, as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed,

In the accompanying drawings, the letter Aindicates the SllOGkyllhG outer portion of which is hollow, as shown at B, and a spring, (I, is inolosed in the said hollow or recess, bearing against the bottom of the same with its inner end, and bearing with its outer end against the shouldered inner end, D, of the center pin E. The outer reduced end, F, slides in a central perforation, G, of a collar, H, which is screwed with its reduced threaded end into the threaded end of the bore or recess, retaining the pin in its place, allowing it to be forced inward, but preventing it from being forcedout by the spring. The outer hollow portion of the stock is provided at a distance from the end with a collar or shoulder, I, and a short distance above the collar with two diainetrically-opposite pins, J, and a sleeve, K, the outer end of which is serrated or cut to form cutter-teeth L, fits upon the end of the stock, bearing with its inner end against the collar, and has at its inner end two L- shaped slots, M, which are slipped over the pins, allowing the screws to enter the inner ends of the slots M by turning the sleeve upon the stock, preventing the sleeve from slipping off the stock. A collar, N, fits upon the sleeve, and may be secured upon the same by means of a set-screw, O, and the outer end of this collar is beveled and serrated to form reamerteeth, as shown at P, having sharp cuttingedges facing in the direction of the rotation of the cutter.

It will be seen that the cutter-sleeve may be secured upon the stock, and the reamercollar adjusted upon the sleeve to suit the thickness of the sheet and the depth to which it is desired to ream the hole made by the cutter, and by bearing the end of the center ing-pin which forms a sharp point against the sheet the cutter will cut the hole, and the reamer at the same time cut away the burrs upon the edges of the same by revolving the stock, thus avoiding the necessity of drilling a hole for the centering-pin, which recedes into the hollow end of the stock as the cutter progresses, and avoiding the necessity of reaming the hole after it has been cut,.doing both operations at once.

' Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States In a cutter and reamer for flue-sheets, the. combination of the stock having its outer end hollow, forming a bore having its outer end female threaded, provided with a collar or shoulder a distance from its end, and provided with two pins or lugs, a spring bearing against the bottom of the bore, a collar fitting with its reduced threaded end in the threaded outer end of the bore, and having a central perforation, a centering-pin sliding with its outer reduced and pointed end in the perforation of the collar, and bearing with its in ner end against the outer end of the spring, a cutter-sleeve forming cutterteeth at its outer end, and having two L-shaped slots at its lower end fitting over the pins upon the my own I have hereunto affixed my signature stock, and a collar having its outer edge in presence of two witnesses. beveled and provided with reamer-teeth, and T secured upon the sleeve by means of a set- ELDOL BROWVN HUNT 5 screw, as and for the purpose shown and set Witnesses:

forth. SYDNEY P. TOGWILL,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as JESSE E. WILLIAMS. 

